Outbreak of avian mycobacteriosis in a commercial turkey breeder flock.

Avian mycobacteriosis (AM) is a chronic and contagious disease of pet birds, captive exotic, wild and domestic fowl, and mammals subsp. is the most common cause of AM in poultry. For the first time, we report a chronic outbreak of AM in an Iranian breeder flock of 250 45-week-old turkeys () with a morbidity and mortality rate of 91.

Effectiveness of an inactivated paratuberculosis vaccine in Iranian sheep flocks using the subsp 316F strain.

Background And Objectives: Paratuberculosis (PTb) (John's disease) is an incurable chronic intestinal infection that mainly affects ruminants. PTb is caused by subspecies (MAP) with a global distribution. Despite evidences on MAP contribution in Crohn's disease its causal role is still a matter of controversy.

Rapid identification of Mycobacterium avium ssp paratuberculosis laboratory strains by IS900-Nested polymerase chain reaction.

Introdution: Mycobacterium avium ssp paratuberculosis (MAP) causes paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) in ruminants. As a species, M. avium comprises M.

Molecular genotyping and epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis strains obtained from cattle in Iran.

Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) genotyping was employed to analyze the population genetics of Mycobacterium bovis in Iran. One hundred and twenty-three isolates collected from slaughtered tuberculosis-suspect cattle and one clinically asymptomatic buffalo were subjected to RFLP analysis with probes of the polymorphic GC-rich sequence (PGRS) and the direct repeat sequence (DR) using DNA digested with PvuII and AluI. All these methods detected a large homogeneous population in which only a few isolates had variant genotypes.

A review of the contemporary knowledge of bovine tuberculosis and government policy in Iran.

In 1931 Carpantier reported bovine TB (BTB) in Iranian cattle. Some eighty years on with a national test-and-slaughter programme in place for over four decades, the efforts to vanquish Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) infection in cattle have been in vain as the vast majority of the 30 Iranian provinces still have reports of BTB in their cattle herds every year.